INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA 

National Security Agency insiders say the organization's new director, Lt.-Gen. Michael Hayden, who took up his job in March, has [...]

FRESH APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION 

The hand of the U.S. Justice Department and Pentagon in shaping American policy on cryptography became ever-more evident when the [...]

TAPPING INTO THE WEB 

The Home Office department that deals with organized crime recently published a consultative paper called 'Interception of Communications in the [...]

ENCRYPTION EXPORTS TO BE LIBERALIZED? 

The President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC) met in [...]

NEW HOME FOR GCHQ 

Cheltenham borough council has approved final details for a new center for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Designed by the [...]

WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME 

Washington is intent on creating a massive domestic and international Internet monitoring system, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to [...]

NSA VOICES FEARS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY 

Speaking before a House judiciary sub-committee on March 4, NSA [...]

HOW THE NSA "WEAKENS" ALGORITHMS 

In the latest of his electronic Crypto Gram publications dated Feb. 15, cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, head of the Minneapolis-based [...]

THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE 

The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official, [...]

RED BOX EXPERIMENT A FLOP 

The "electronic red box" which the British government introduced last year has been scrapped because ministers couldn't operate the prototype. [...]

NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE 

Significant new details on how the National Security Agency is organized in the post-Cold War era have emerged from new [...]

ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE 

For the first time, the 1999 version of the renowned [...]

LOOKING FOR LOST CODES 

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) appears highly intrigued by the [...]

ENCRYPTION WITH A "PRIVATE DOORBELL" 

Thirteen U.S. computer companies announced on July 13 that they had made a new "breakthrough" on the encryption export front. [...]

SCSSI TO BE BEEFED UP? 

The French government is thinking of considerably beefing up the Service Central pour la Securite des Systemes d'Information (SCSSI) to [...]

THE THREATS AND TRANSPARENCY GAME 

In a hearing before a Senate panel on June 24, CIA director George Tenet and NSA boss Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minihan [...]

NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT 

The National Security Agency, which prides itself on ensuring the use of American-made chips and printed circuit boards for its [...]

ON-LINE SECURITY TESTED 

A team of specialized computer hackers from MI5, GCHQ and the Ministry of Defence's Signals Corp that was set up [...]

MERGER MANIA IN ENCRYPTION TRADE 

Experts are wondering whether a current wave of mergers in the U.S. encryption business can be interpreted as a sign [...]

HOW NIST AND NSA POOL THEIR EFFORTS 

Speaking before the U.S. Senate subcommittee for technology and space on Feb. 10, Raymond Kammer, the new director of the [...]

NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

Clinton Brooks, who had served up to now as special [...]

CROWELL LANDS AT CYLINK CORP 

In contact with several companies in the computer field since he retired in September (IN 322/323), the former deputy director [...]

AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW" 

The Swedish government has just discovered that the encryption software in the Lotus Notes (IBM) system includes a "flaw" that [...]

PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY 

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure [...]

WILLIAM CROWELL 

Less than two months after he retired as deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA), William Crowell has been [...]

ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS 

The U.S. armed forces have adopted Netscape for its communications. [...]

GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB 

Two companies, UK Web Ltd. and C2Net Software, Inc., have [...]

PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS 

An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet, [...]

SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET 

Hewlett-Packard claims to have developed an encryption framework for securing [...]

DEEP INTELLIGENCE LINKS EXPOSED 

A book just published in New Zealand reveals fresh information about the workings of the so-called UKUSA signals intelligence network, [...]

A "LOCKBOX" TO KEEP CODES 

The U S company Trusted Information Services (TIS) was one of the first to criticize the Clipper Chip when it [...]

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT 

The United States still hasn't told the British government exactly how much damage CIA traitor Aldrich Ames inflicted on British [...]

EASING THE GLOBAL RULES 

New international rules and technical standards for cryptography that both the U.S. government and the majority of Western nations could [...]

BT'S SECURITY HEADACHE 

British Telecom heads a consortium named Inca that is bidding for an estimated one billion pound contract to upgrade the [...]

FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER 

American intelligence services are known to be strongly opposed to [...]

NEW BOSS AT GCHQ 

David Omand, a 48-year-old leading official at Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), is strongly tipped to become the new head [...]

SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES 

Most users working in companies or government services who need to protect their messages don't do so because encryption software [...]

A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED 

For years Jean-Bernard Condat has undoubtedly been France's best-known computer hacker. Appearing on television talk shows, launching provocative operations and [...]

BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO CLIPPER CHIP 

The British government has been secretly funding a project to develop a British "key escrow system" to enable GCHQ to [...]

THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS 

Damien Doligez, a 27-year-old French research worker who took a job at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et [...]

WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP? 

Three American programmers, Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky and Paul Rubin, last month began using Internet to distribute the Beta version [...]

BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ 

A committee looking into the capability, tasks and management structure at GCHQ Cheltenham at prime minister John Major's bidding is [...]

SECRETS OF MENWITH HILL 

British defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind recently signed a so-called Public Interest Immunity certificate claiming that any "official disclosures" in court [...]

LAYOFFS AT GCHQ 

At least 500 jobs will be eliminated at the GCHQ SIGINT base because of government belt-tightening. GCHQ bosses hope the [...]

NSA GUARDING A CLOSED MARKET? 

Denials of export licences for American encryption technologies and denials of joint development with foreign firms may have inadvertently revealed [...]

MORE WOES FOR CLIPPER CHIP 

The very company to first propose putting the public encryption Clipper Chip, with a government-approved "backdoor" in its products, AT&T, [...]

DAILY ENCRYPTION "MARKET SURVEY" 

Earlier this month there were hearings at the Senate Subcommittee on Technology and Law, chaired by Senator Patrick Leahy, on [...]

NSA MANUAL "AVAILABLE" 

A Northern California software designer opposed to the adoption of the Clipper Chip public encryption system (I.N. n. 237) has [...]

CLIPPER MOVING IN OR OUT? 

A couple of weeks before the Clinton administration is scheduled to complete a classified review of the officially proposed Clipper [...]

CIA OFFERS INSTEAD OF TAKES? 

In the recent first issue of the electronic journal The Internet Letter (e-mail netweekàaccess.digex.net), Paul Wallner, the CIA's coordinator of [...]

CLIPPER CHIP'S POOR START 

On 16 April the White House Office of the Press Secretary announced the introduction of the "Clipper Chip" as "a [...]

Acting on behalf of Campbell Christie, general secretary of the [...]